⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Waiting for my plane at #YYC … starting off this weekend’s adventure to @SDF’s Interim Computer Festival in Seatttle.

And yes, there is a Newton #MessagePad in my carry on.

A decade of waiting has led to this!

https://news.itsfoss.com/gimp-3-release/

This excellent youtube video by a critical cybertruck owner goes over every major body panel which is glued on.

It's clearly possible to rip off some of these panels by hand.

Kinda surprised they haven't started walking off the trucks given how easy some of them come off.

Most panels appear to be easily pealed off part of the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8

#RUD #cybertruck #tesla #nazicar

Wow! The new live action Snow White from Disney has an estimated budget of $270m! 😳 The reviews are coming in now, and it's not looking too good. Here's one that caught my attention.

“There’s nothing wrong with Disney’s live-action remake of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ that couldn’t be fixed by making it 26 minutes shorter, 88 years ago and in hand-drawn animation.” – William Bibbiani, The Wrap

"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President
@Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption

https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0

My dad is in his early 70s.

He’s always been into computers, but he’s used nothing but MS-DOS and #Windows since the 90s, and resisted change at every turn.

Last month he called me up to ask me about #Linux, package managers, and “the terminal”. He’s now installing Linux Mint on his friends’ computers so they don’t have to throw out perfectly good computers because Windows 11 won’t support them.

I’ve never been more proud.

https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/114184937238415364

@santiago I'm pretty sure I wrote the first review of a linux distribution in a British newsstand computer magazine—for Computer Shopper, some time in 1994, of an early slackware (installed off floppy).

Here are a few bangers:

“It isn’t that you don’t ’get‘ tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.”
“almost every single interaction with technology, which is required to live in modern society, has become actively adversarial to the user”.
“The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”

If you use eBay, they’ve just updated their T&Cs to say that they may train generative models (AI) on your personal data. Opt out here, if you’re in the EEA, UK or Switzerland: https://accountsettings.ebay.co.uk/ai-preferences

Sometimes, Ofcom bewilders me:

Ofcom has said that for small sites, the costs of complying [with the Online Safety Act] “are likely to be negligible or in the small thousands at most”.

Small sites, especially volunteer-run community sites, generally don't have "small thousands" to spend on legal advice. And even if they did, that's far from "negligible".

https://archive.ph/eRu0m

#OnlineSafetyAct

Debian Linux announce they will no longer post on X

“X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe.”

https://micronews.debian.org/2025/1738154246.html

Two new Pebble smartwatches can be ordered

2 smartwatches running PebbleOS are now available to order. It starts with an improved new edition of the Pebble 2.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Two-new-Pebble-smartwatches-can-be-ordered-10320466.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Mobiles #Pebble #Smartwatch #news

A pod of dolphins were at hand to welcome our intrepid space travelers.

Them dolphins understand space and space travel better than most humans, don't they? 😉 🐬

7/n

#tuesdayThoughts #ducks

"We may manually review your DMs"
Delete all your DMs on X. I did so several months ago (along with my entire timeline) when I boarded up my account.

#musk #X #Twitter

“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team

#space

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You can find all the information you need here: https://noyb.eu/en/traineeship